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In the last few days there has been an intense debate in the media about the Art Academy, which has been described as threatened with shut-down due to an eviction notice from the city of Malmö on its current premises.

These days, it may seem as if 3-D printers can spit out just about anything, from a full-sized sports car, to edible food, to human skin.

A wave of disruption has hit news organisations around the world, with potentially profound consequences both for publishers and the future of news production, according to a report by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Its fifth Digital News Report says the combined effects of the rise of social platforms, an accelerating move to mobile devices and a growing rejection by consumers of online advertising has undermined many of the business models that support quality news.

Frequent viewers of soft-core pornography, such as photographs of naked and semi-naked female models, are unlikely to think positively about women and are likely to have become desensitised to soft-core pornography common in newspapers, advertising and the media. Those are the findings of research by University of Nottingham forensic psychologists, Dr Simon Duff and Sophie Daniels to be presented today, Wednesday 15 June 2016, at the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society's Division of Forensic Psychology in Brighton.

Researcher Agneta Mallén is studying how citizen journalism, where ordinary citizens document events, can in some cases lead to cyber bullying and viritual shaming. Photo: Wen Tong Neo Citizen journalism is often seen as more democratic form of journalism, where the public contributes to the reporting, analysis and dissemination of news.

By immersing glass particles in a fluid, researchers at MIT's Media Lab and Harvard University are exploring a new mechanism for modifying an optical device's diffusivity, or the extent to which it scatters light. In its current form, the new diffuser could be used to calibrate a wide range of imaging systems, but the researchers believe that their mechanism could ultimately lead to holographic video screens or to tunable optical devices with applications in imaging, sensing, and photography.

Livestreaming of the media briefing on the first results from ESA's LISA Pathfinder mission will begin on 7 June at 09:30 GMT (11:30 CEST). LISA Pathfinder is a technology demonstrator for the observation of gravitational waves from space. Programme outline 09:30-09:40 GMT / 11:30-11:40 CEST Opening up the gravitational Universe for ESA's Science Programme Fabio Favata, Head of the Coordination Office, ESA Directorate of Science 09:40-09:50 GMT /

The below is the full letter to the editor of The Australian on 18 May 2016 by Vice-Chancellor, Professor Glyn Davis .

They welcomed an audience that included 150 journalism alumni, students and faculty who share an interest in how Stanford can help sustain public affairs reporting in the digital age.

Influential figures from the world of digital storytelling and journalism will explore changing journalistic practices in a symposium at the University.

NEW YORK - The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Columbia University today announced the creation of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.

Washington state's housing market showed the continuing effects of low supply in the first quarter of 2016.

Moving tales of humanity showcased at media degree show Stories from 'the Jungle' at Calais, a multi-sensory exploration of a Holocaust survivor's childhood and an interactive box of memories for dem

Journalistic Blog, panel discussion and light conversation on rather unworldly products and technical jargon:The Salzburg Research Group "Media Change" brings fresh air to Communication Science.

Visiting postgraduate scholars from one of Pakistan's largest universities will be able to benefit from the University's teaching and learning as part of a new initiative.

Image credit: Rushenb (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 )], via Wikimedia Commons Scientists from Oxford University and Tel Aviv University have ranked the world's most 'popular' reptiles, revealing the species that capture the public's imagination and providing valuable quantitative data towards the debate surrounding conservation priorities.

Young children with mild attention problems can go unnoticed at primary school and fall behind their peers academically, according to new research published today. The study by researchers at Nottingham and Durham Universities calls for teachers and parents to work together to identify these children and help them manage their learning better in class.

Mainstream media reporting about Muslim communities is contributing to an atmosphere of rising hostility towards Muslims in Britain, according to a University of Cambridge/ESRC Roundtable held at the House of Lords.

Authors pictured: Ruoxu Wang, Denise Bortree, and Anli Xiao. Not pictured: Mu Wu, Yan Huang, Ruobing Li and Fan Yang UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Native advertising, often known as sponsored content or promoted posts, is showing up all over the Internet. Users may expect native advertising on sites like Facebook and Buzzfeed, but a discussion has emerged among those in the public relations field on whether the practice impacts the credibility of the companies who pay for it or the news outlets who run it.

For the past four years, researchers at MIT, Tufts University, and Georgia State University have been conducting a study to determine whether tablet computers loaded with literacy applications could improve the reading preparedness of young children living in economically disadvantaged communities. At the Association for Computing Machinery's Learning at Scale conference this week, they presented the results of the first three deployments of their system.

We're at UC Berkeley's Campanile courtyard listening to sounds of an ancient bell that have never been heard before. It's the 20-foot-tall, 200-ton Russian "Tsar Bell" - the largest bell in the world - in duet with the campus's carillon.

A shot of the crowd at a Bernie Sanders campaign event March 12 on the U. of I. campus, taken by journalism professor Charles Ledford and later published in the Wall Street Journal.

The video shows a Jordanian pilot in an orange jumpsuit standing in a cage, his head bowed. A match hits unseen gasoline, and what follows is unspeakable.

Somewhere in my memento box I have a piece of wire copy, the paper kind, announcing a news flash from the 1980s.

Using the Hellboy series as a touchstone, Professor Scott Bukatman has discovered new ways to talk about comics while offering a heightened "adventure of reading.

Like many people, University of Pennsylvania senior Melanie Murphy uses her smartphone to do a Google search when she's looking for information, but, now that she knows about the environmental impact of using electronic devices, she thinks twice before doing so. This semester, while taking Cinema Studies Assistant Professor Rahul Mukherjee's "Environmental Media" class in the School of Arts & Sciences , Murphy learned that using electronic devices can cause harmful carbon emissions.

First 'big data' research approach to graduate earnings reveals significant variations depending on student background, degree subject and university attended.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio "fireside chats" reached into the homes of frightened Americans to reassure them during the Great Depression and World War II. The chats were made possible by newly sensitive microphones that created an emotional intimacy with the audience - but also required Roosevelt to use a dental implant to reduce the whistle caused by the microphone.

ANN ARBOR-Lynette Clemetson will be the new director of the Knight Wallace Fellowship and Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan-two of the nation's most prestigious programs.

With the Florida presidential primary a day away, Joe Janes is recalling the time of butterfly ballots and "hanging chads” - the presidential election of 2000 - in the latest installment of his podcast series, Documents that Changed the World.

Ben Bagdikian, former dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and award-winning journalist, author and media critic, died today at his home in Berkeley.

EXPERTS ADVISORY March Madness: U-M experts available as candidates vie for voters in debates, primary U.S. presidential candidates will descend on Michigan in March to attract voters and solidify their base.

Fifty years after the Black Panther Party's founding, the ideals that sparked the controversial black power organization resonate again with the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Wikipedia Art + Feminism edit-a-thon March 5 will produce new content on women artists for the site, including Alison Mason Kingsbury, whose murals adorn three campus buildings.

AUSTIN, Texas - The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin has reopened its public spaces after a comprehensive 18-month renovation.

Michael C. Horowitz , an associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and the associate director of Penn's Perry World House , will testify in front of the United States House Armed Forces subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces , Thursday, Feb.

An effort to clean up local elections in Brazil has yielded new evidence about the prevalence of "voter buying" in one of the world's largest democracies. A study co-authored by an MIT political scientist finds that audits of voters reduce the electorate by 12 percentage points in local elections, and lower the chances of mayoral re-election by 18 percentage points.

Justice often would be better served if we consciously confront stereotypes. Talking about racial and gender prejudice and in turn discrimination, intended or not, dismantles the status quo-which is women earn less than men.

The Oxford Internet Institute is holding a Wikipedia Editathon today to celebrate Wikipedia's 15 th birthday.

Thomas Hengartner will take over the leadership of the Collegium Helveticum, which is jointly run by the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, for the next five years.

Revelations about the widespread use of shell companies and offshore banking by politicians and business figures have challenged the traditional model of investigative reporting.

88 out of every 100 people in Switzerland use the internet. Usage time is increasing and accessing the internet from mobile devices is considerably more frequent than before.